Mayweather Vs McGregor

It wasn't a fake fight, but it was done for the spectacle and the money. Mayweather wanted 50–0 but what he really wanted was money to pay his IRS back taxes. And McGregor wanted a $100 million payday. So Floyd stays out of IRS trouble for now, MacGregor secures his sons future, and the world got to pretend for a few weeks that it still cared about boxing.

first off, mayweather is one of the best of all time. i hate seeing people parrot the thing of, "he ran from any real challenge". it shows how little you know about boxing if you think it was mayweather and not the promoters that pushed back the pacman fight. unless you can tell me who he didn't fight that he should of, then you're ignorant of facts and should leave the discussion alone.

castillo, maidana, de le hoya, cotto, judah, and alvarez were obviously just no name nobodies who couldn't fight right? i'm more of a roy jones jr fan myeslf. i never really like mayweather, but the rewriting of history does this man so dirty. one official knockdown ever and that's when he broke his own hand on the other guys face, took a knee to regain composure, and STILL FINISHED THE FIGHT WITH A WIN. he wanted to give an entertaining fight that the fans wanted. give him his props and move on.

This is, just in a word "wrong".

One can admit, the fight was obvious. Everyone with a brainstem knows it was 100% for money. I mean the *** nickname is "money".

The problem is boxing itself, mayweather wins(won) because the structure boxing has taken on. The bigger pussy that runs for 6 rounds and throws the weakest most numerous love taps wins.

Not to say they aren't athletic, or skilled or etc it takes a lot of energy to bounce around and make it look like you're fighting.

yeah, the fight was for money, and it's the fight people wanted to see. however, you have no clue what you are talking about, and i'm not going to read your replies going forward.

No one wanted to see the fight they got.

The people that wanted to see "a fight" forgot that boxing is the furthest thing from fighting humanly possible. It's a ballet.

If you get paid 100 million dollars, you better put some effort into it.

Agree with this.


It doesn't take a boxing connoisseur to see this for what it was. Or to see what kind of man Mayweather is to hang his gloves up with this as the final notch on his post.
I can respect people who see Mayweather as a businessman. But to say he is one of the greatest of all time is... An exaggeration. He won't be remembered for anything as soon as someone surpasses him. And I hope that that someone appears soon and stands for something greater than just a record and a purse.

Lol, pre-prime Canelo, way over the hill De La Hoya and Cotto, nobody Maidana, BERTO, ducked Manny for 5 years, making up excuse after excuse. His last 8 fights were trash. He purposely avoided prime Amir Khan, prime GGG, prime Manny, and prime Canelo. He might be the best defensive fighter of all time, definitely one of the softest punchers, definitely one of the most boring, and he doesn't stack up against the best boxers of all time. He couldnt even knock down a rookie last night. It took him 10 rounds, Canelo would have flattened McGregor in the 1st round. Nobody needs to ever see this guy in the ring again. Boxing is a better sport without him.

Don't hold your breath waiting on someone to surpass him. 50-0 is no accident.

When you handpick guys that can't beat you, that record doesn't mean anything. Plenty of active fighters that are at Floyd's weight that could have beaten him into the ground years ago if he wasn't afraid of them. Nobody needs to surpass his "record" to be better than him. Canelo and GGG are both superior punchers, they fight next month, will be better than all of Floyd's fights.

at least it was better than Johnny Knoxville vs Butterbean

You lost me with Amir Khan(He is meh with a glass jaw)

Facts

Boxing is different then street fighting.. y u no understand tha boxing!?

This is a strange question. How does someone without any professional boxing experience force Mayweather into the ring? Of course Mayweather chose.

Not for nothing, but Mayweather already had the record. He's now 51-0 if you count the time he beat his wife.

Incorrect Connor when he was younger trained hard in boxing and was planning to become pro boxing at first but fell in love with UFC type of fighting. And if mayweather ignores Connors challenge then what? "Oh he's a pussy Connor called him out but he won't fight Connor." Remeber how the general public think.

Nothing wrong with it at all.

Aw, the quote got snipped! I was hoping we could turn this towards something funny.

I did some research, trying to find out exactly who said what and when, and this is what I've got so far:

It all started, a year further back than I remembered, in August of 2015:

Anyway, this is the best funny I could devise... In November 2016, McGregor didn't say this:

Have a good Monday everyone. Doesn't look like we're getting a very good update next month.

But this is common sense..... lol mayweather would be destroyed by anyone in MMA. Like the same of mma fighter going into a ring with a pro boxer because there are "rules." But then again the people crying about this fight don't understand boxing it seems. At the end of the day it was close very close: I'm sure Connor is happy with that.

So now the training he went through when Connor was younger to become a pro boxer isn't experience? Lol you should tell Connor that to his face but let me get my popcorn first.

***i'd tell him that no problem, I'll call him a *** to his face. It's not like he can do anything about it.

How cute keyboard warrior :)

Keyboard warrior ain't got ***to do with it, it's law.

Only illegal if you get caught

Mayweather hasn't answered every challenger; that has never been his platform, nor should anyone expect it to be.
But answering McGregor's $iren $ong has done and will do nothing to quiet the criticism that the general public has for Mayweather. McGregor's was by far the least of any challenge Mayweather should have ever considered, if we're talking about securing a legacy of being a real champion. Everyone knew what the outcome would be even in 2015--including McGregor.

The bout couldn't have been more hollow.
Mayweather 49-0 retired on a fight with someone _-_. No wins. No loses. No previous record at all for this sport.
They wagged the dog. They hyped their audience into believing there was real contention, but really they just publicized someone that wasn't a boxer in this sense at all until he could ride into the ring on a carpet of tough talk/smoke and mirrors/glitz and glam. Barely better than if they just pulled some random from the street, made some Youtube videos about how great he was, and put him in the ring instead.
It wasn't the battle to set a record. It wasn't the battle of a century. It wasn't the greatest battle of all time. It was a battle that will define how Mayweather is remembered, however.

Equate it to a made-for-TV sequel of a sequel based on a decent original movie that had no business being made into a franchise. Because it was nothing more than a cash grab. To call it anything else is disingenuous to any true boxer that has stepped into the ring with anything truly on the line.

Duh again? Are there people who don't believe this? Then again people like money and if I remeber right mayweather owed the government big time. This wasn't the fight of the century it was a show and people are still QQing cause Connor lost. Morons everywhere.

Common sense finally!!!! This was a cash grab, humbling experience and false expectations all rolled into one. Anyone saying Mayweather isn't brilliant in and out the ring is either a troll or something else I don't feel like typing due to it being denied. I feel like this is just opening doors to future "spectacles" with cross disciplines. McGregor already announced his issues with how MMA was being ran and Floyd has done the same with boxing.

But they gotta one up it and have cross gender matches next!
Honda Housey vs Gennady Golovkin

Even better, Team battles like they have had years ago, Or Royal Rumble style where 10 fighters enter and only 1 can win.
How about point system over KO or submission(would make them work harder to win imo) or give time trials where rewards are based around endurance and speed style fights.